Category Archives: War

This year the ‘toxic trinity’ of modern times caught up with the Animals in War: these are the animals that were harnessed to assist with warfare, from the horses, donkeys, racing-pigeons and dogs of the past, right up to today’s … Continue reading →

With the imminent ‘Poppy Day’ commemorations in Britain remembering the Armed Forces battle-deaths over the last century, come deeply woven images of ‘foreign fields’. While these ‘fields’ are the final resting-place of the dead or battlefields away from home, these … Continue reading →

As elusiveness and randomness increasingly define war and conflict, so the identity of ‘man-hunting’ becomes ever more conspicuous; whether ‘special forces’ raids, targeted assassinations, or drone ‘strikes’ and sniper-terror, these are the tactics of counter-insurgency-terrorism, while the insurgent-terrorists adopt IED’s … Continue reading →

From John Kahekwa, Director of the PolePole Foundation in Bukavu, eastern DR Congo, and a research partner of The Marjan Centre. How we celebrated on New Year’s Day ! And the reason? When the M23 militia was advancing from Goma … Continue reading →

War has traditionally been conceived, and studied, as a uniquely human phenomenon since humans are seen as the agents of war: the principal cause of war, its main protagonists, practitioners, and victims. The Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict … Continue reading →

Both the hands of the African and the foreigner are needed to work together for the protection of Eastern Lowland Gorillas. D R Congo (DRC) citizens have tried to protect and conserve the Eastern Lowland Gorillas for over four decades … Continue reading →

Here is the first of two report/blogs sent by John Kahekwa of the PolePole Foundation (POPOF) in Bukavu, located in the South Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and is about two hundred miles to the … Continue reading →

With Remembrance Sunday tomorrow The Guardian’s Ian Jack reported on his walk around the war memorials at Hyde Park, giving his verdict on form, content and overall impressions. Ian Jack’s general verdict was that all the memorials created in recent … Continue reading →

In Book Five of De Rerum Natura Lucretius * not only harshly criticizes war for its absurdity and cruelty but also the use of animals in warfare. In the passage of the ‘improbable wars’ (V: 1308-1349) Lucretius explores both the … Continue reading →